The Seville and the FC Barcelona I reached ‘in-extremis’ an agreement so that Luuk de jong He joined the Barça team on loan until the end of the season. The Dutch footballer was one of the last options that the Catalan team had to reinforce its forward, despite the fact that he was one of the footballers that Ronald Koeman liked the most, but everything changed on the last day of the market, when they convinced the Hispanics in letting it out for a practically laughable price.
According to the newspaper Sport, Barcelona is going to pay only one million euros to the Seville team to have the Dutch attacker in its squad, a figure that made him the most viable signing for the Catalans since the other options they were going to scandalous figures. Thus, the main reason why Barça closed the incorporation of De Jong is fully economic since it got rid of Antoine Griezmann, its highest paid footballer (more than 20 million per season) and brought a loan that was going to allow him save 19 million euros in salaries.
Forward that Koeman liked
Ronald Koeman was insisting that the FC Barcelona board of directors hire another striker in this final stretch of the market and the arrival of Luuk de jong It would also have been, in part, his thing since he is a footballer who knows perfectly from when he was coach of the Netherlands and knows that he can contribute great things. As for the economic, it is a signing with which they save a lot of money and in sports it is a striker who is totally different from what there is, a more static footballer and who knows how to play very well with his back to the goal, complementary both with Kun Agüero as with Martin Braihtwaite.
The Catalans will have a non-mandatory purchase option in the event that Luuk De Jong convinces them, yes, the amount that they would have agreed with the Seville has not come to light, but it should not be too high.
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